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Definition of Beaumont

1. Noun. United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853).

2. Noun. English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616).

3. Noun. A city of southeastern Texas near Houston.

Definition of Beaumont

1. Proper noun. An English habitational surname from any of several places in France. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beaumont

Beatlesque Beatley Beatrice Beatrice Lillie Beatrice Webb Beau Beau's lines Beau Brummell Beauceron Beaucerons

Beauchamp Beaufort Beaufort Sea Beaufort scale Beaujolais Beaumont Beaumontia Beaumontia grandiflora Beauvaria Beauvoir

Beaver State Beaverbrook Beavis Becca Becher Bechtel crab Bechterew's band Bechterew's disease Bechterew's nucleus

Literary usage of Beaumont

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Lodge and beaumont demurred, which demurrer was overruled and the defendants ex- cepted. They also filed their separate answer denying the allegations of ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"wards executed for the murder of Mr. Weare), took up the quarrel, and made an attempt to murder beaumont, which failed by a mere accident. ..."

3. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1914)
"FRANCIS beaumont was the son of Sir F. beaumont, of Grace-Dieu in Leicestershire, and was born at that place, probably in 1585. He resided for a short time ..."

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